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August Star Parties Elections for Officers in September The CVAS Executive Committee Pres – Dell Vance - (435) 938-8328 Loaner Scope Coordinator/NSN Coordinator – [email protected] Garrett Smith – [email protected] Vice Pres- Layne Pedersen – (801) 463-1701 Past President, Webmaster, Librarian – [email protected] Tom Westre – (435) 787-6380 [email protected] Treasurer- Brad Kropp - (435) 755-0877 Public Relations – Lyle Johnson - [email protected] Secretary – Dale Hooper - (435) 563-0608 [email protected] Vol. 5 Number 12 August 2018 www.cvas-utahskies.org No Meeting This Month – August Star September is getting closer and we want you to Parties begin thinking about running for office. There will There is no club meeting scheduled for August. be one or more open officer positions this year, so During the summer months, we instead, concentrate please consider the opportunity to run for a club on getting outside for club (private) and public star officer position. You may run for any office. parties. The President’s Corner We have three star parties scheduled for August. By Dell Vance, CVAS President Watch the website and email for changes and more information. First is a CVAS star party at the Beaver Mountain parking lot on August 10th. The next morning (11 Aug) is a solar party at the Logan Library from 10:30am to noon. The last scheduled star party is one that is always fun. We will set up scopes in the parking lot of the Providence Macey’s to show shoppers the planets and the moon. We also still need a liaison for the Logan Library Loaner Telescope. Please contact Dell Vance if you can help. Elections for Officers in September It’s hot here in Cache Valley. It isn’t nearly as bad as when I lived in Houston. There the temperature is about 95˚F with 98% humidity. It can be very unpleasant during the Summer time. However, here in Cache Valley it cools down very quickly when the sun goes down. It is great for astronomers. Now if we could just get the smoke out of the air. I have been watching Mars this month and it is may have: Additional time spent putting on quite a show. It is very bright (third each month including Excom brightest object in the night sky now). I am hopeful Meeting: about 5-6 hours. that the giant dust storm on Mars and the smoke in our skies will clear so I can get a better look at it. Treasurer: Collects membership dues, writes Here is a picture of the Moon with all the smoke in checks for expenses, and reports the air. Pretty, but not very helpful for star-gazing. monthly the status of membership and financial activities each month at the Excom Meeting. Additional time spent each month including Excom Meeting: about 2 hours. Time spent doing the leadership responsibilities may vary depending on how much effort and innovation that you apply to the tasks. As you can see, the time requirements can be minimal. I hope each member will take an active role in the leadership of the club at some time during their membership. The turn-over of members for the Excom can provide a good mix of ideas and opportunities. In addition, the past President also It is time to start getting ready for the elections of attends the Excom Meeting to provide continuity club leaders. I want to assure anyone that is and coaching to the committee. interested in running for one of the positions that they are not very time consuming or difficult to The election will be at the September Club Meeting, serve in. The Executive Committee (Excom) meets but now is the time to get excited about what you one night a month for about an hour to plan can do for the Club. programs and star parties. With five people on the Excom we usually have a lot of input on the items Be sure to get out and participate in the club considered. The Elected positions are: activities this month. Thanks again for your support. President: Chairs the committee and sets up the Excom meeting. He/She will also Clear Skies! conduct the monthly meeting during the Fall/Winter months and writes a column for the Newsletter. Additional time spent each month including Excom Meeting: about 4 hours. Vice-President:Conducts meetings when President is not available. (This doesn’t happen very often.) He/She may also take assignments when needed by the Excom and provides important input at the Excom Meeting. Additional time spent each month including Excom Meeting: about 1 ½ Hours. Waxing gibbous moon, July 23rd (8:35pm) from East Secretary: Keeps the minutes of meetings, is the Beach Idaho State Park Campground (Bear Lake) - Courtesy Bonnie Schenk-Darrington editor of the Newsletter, and any special assignments that the Excom Club Announcement: through their website, but that is more work for [email protected] you). By Dale Hooper In September, this will become the main method Currently as a club we are simply maintaining a used to send out the newsletter. So if you wish to rather clumsy list of about 76 email addresses to continue to receive the newsletter – we urge you to handle club communications. This is the method reply to the invitation email. that we currently use to send out the newsletter and club email announcements. This is rather awkward If you are a paid member of the club and have at best and has definite maintenance issues. To help reservations about doing this we *really* want to with this, we thought it best to move to a group hear from you because we are planning to use this email system. There are several that are available as the main method of communicating with each such as yahoogroups, googlegroups and groups.io. other. We feel that this will greatly enhance our ability to communicate with each other as a club. After You don’t need to be a paid member of the club to giving it a fair amount of thought, we have decided sign up, but if you are a paid member and we to go with groups.io. don’t see you sign up – we will contact you to see if you need help or have questions or reservations. There are several things that groups.io provides to us as a club and also some things that groups.io This will be a private group – by invitation only so will not do to you. Groups.io will allow us to send we shouldn’t need to worry about spammers or email to everyone in the club. Members will also people posting inappropriate content. be able to communicate with other members of the club this way. We will also be able to have a wiki You will be able to send messages to other cvas- (help), we can conduct polls and there will also be a [email protected] email list members so we do files section. We can have a photos section and ask you to be respectful. The club executive calendar section, but we see these as a duplication committee will serve as moderators of the list. of the website – so we currently don’t plan to use groups.io for photos or calendaring. There is no We see this as a real opportunity to grow the club. charge to the club for using groups.io. There may be a few “growing pains” along the way so we ask for your patience. We will be sending out One very significant feature is that it will also allow an email message about this before we “go live”. us to create subgroups (such as our astro-imaging group) so that our special interest groups can Review of the Celestron free app “Sky coordinate activities. Members of the list, at large, Portal” will be able to join the subgroups and will be able to By Blaine Dickey view their messages. A few months ago I purchased a Celestron NexStar Unlike some services there will be no ads sent to Evolution 6 inch mainly for use at star parties. The you from groups.io and it won’t track any of your telescope is controlled by a free app called information. “SkyPortal”. This app makes it possible to easily control the telescope from a phone or tablet, using We plan to do a switch over to groups.io during IOS or Android. The app can also be used as a August so that it is in full use before our annual planetarium program for general use in the field or meeting. in star parties. It is a great app to take with you at star parties. For You will receive an email message from CVAS- example it is a great resource for learning the [email protected] which will include some constellations and showing them to others before information from me about what we are doing. To pointing them out in the sky. It can be held up to the sign up for our email list, all you will need to do is sky in “Compass” mode to show the current sky reply to the email message. (You could also sign up depending on the way you are facing. You can easily zoom in to see stars fainter than naked eye There is over 4 hours of recorded audio and many brightness. more notes and images that are helpful in learning about the objects you are currently looking at. It also has a night vision mode to preserve your night vision. When someone asks a question about the object you are looking at you can click on the “Info” button after clicking on an object, and it will bring up an audio, or extensive notes and often an image that are useful in answering their question.
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